My illustrious LAN administrator re-permission the D: partition on the Win2K server that is hosting an Oracle 9i database (a small one). Since this has happened the users can not connect to the database receiving an ora-12541 error. I tried to do the following: <at command level sql-plus> Connect sys as SYSDBA Then at the Password prompt after hitting enter I get a ORA-12560 TNS:Protocol Adapter Error. I'm thinking oracle can't get to some of it's resources (files in this case), but I don't know the permission scheme Oracle 9i (9.2.2) should have from the root of its folder down. Any ideas or help is greatly appreciated ...=20 v/r Stephen S. Wolfe, GS-11, DAFC Data Services Manager stephen.wolfe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (813) 827-9972 DSN 651-9972=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------